‘The pornographic vocabulary of sex as the violent debasement of the female body had seeped out from screens and into the lives of women’ There’s a shift happening. Perhaps not quite enough yet to call it a tipping point. But something is going on. When my colleagues and I were working on ‘Big Porn Inc: […]
Sadistic Romance by GAIL DINES The porn industry must be throwing a fit right now. The adult book Fifty Shades of Grey has sold over twenty million copies in record time, and sales are still going strong. How did E.L. James, a first-time author who was a television executive, manage to pull off a feat […]
Whatever Happened to Melissa Harris-Perry? by GAIL DINES Last week, midway through a leisurely Saturday afternoon, I got an email from MSNBC asking me to be on the Melissa Harris Perry Show a week later (July 7th). I was delighted to accept, as MHP is not your usual American journalist. A professor of political science […]
I thought I was coming to Australia for a mix of work and sightseeing. Well, I was correct about the work part, but missed seeing your beautiful country since I spent much of my time holed up in the studios of ABC. My book Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality, was, thanks to the […]
‘The central issue about pornography for a woman on the left like me is sexual subordination and how to end it’ Opponents of pornography are prudes, moralisers, hung up about sex and want to put all women in burqas . Right? Not exactly. Dr Helen Pringle tackles these weary and predictable stereotypes in a piece […]
Gail Dines on ABC Big Ideas Last month Collective Shout co-hosted with University of NSW, Spinifex Press and the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women, a standing room only address by Pornland author and US academic Gail Dines. An extract of her address at NSW State Parliament was broadcast this week by ABC Big Ideas. You […]
It rakes in billions, exploits women, and leaves men disgusted with themselves. A few years ago at the Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas, the biggest porn convention in the United States, Abbywinters.com, an Australian porn company, had one of the largest booths. It bills itself as offering “real, passionate, unscripted” sexual activity by “happy, […]
Please click here for a list of Gail’s other events in Sydney and Melbourne. See also: How pornography hijacks our sexuality: Gail Dines and MTR on Phillip Adams Late Night Live Listen to Gail’s interview on ABC Breakfast yesterday.
Gail Dines and MTR on Phillip Adams Late Night Live Gail Dines, author of Pornland: How porn has hijacked out sexuality – just published in Australia by Spinifex Press- and I were guests on ABC RN Late Night Live last night (repeated this afternoon). We discussed the harms of the global porn industry with well […]
